¹与世俗为友就是与　神为敌

¹Whence [are] wars and fightings among you? not thence — out of your passions, that are as soldiers in your members?

²你们放纵贪欲，如果得不到，就杀人；你们嫉妒，如果一无所得，就打斗争执。你们得不到，因为你们不求；

²ye desire, and ye have not; ye murder, and are zealous, and are not able to attain; ye fight and war, and ye have not, because of your not asking;

³你们求也得不到，因为你们的动机不良，要把所得的耗费在你们的私欲上。

³ye ask, and ye receive not, because evilly ye ask, that in your pleasures ye may spend [it].

⁴淫乱的人哪，你们不知道与世俗为友，就是与　神为敌吗？所以与世俗为友的，就成了　神的仇敌。

⁴Adulterers and adulteresses! have ye not known that friendship of the world is enmity with God? whoever, then, may counsel to be a friend of the world, an enemy of God he is set.

⁵圣经说：“　神爱他那安置在我们里面的灵，爱到嫉妒的地步”（或译：“　神安置在我们里面的灵，爱到嫉妒的地步”），你们想这话是徒然的吗？

⁵Do ye think that emptily the Writing saith, `To envy earnestly desireth the spirit that did dwell in us,`

⁶但　神所赐的恩更大；所以圣经上说：“　神抵挡骄傲的人，赐恩给谦卑的人。”

⁶and greater grace he doth give, wherefore he saith, `God against proud ones doth set Himself up, and to lowly ones He doth give grace?`

⁷你们应当顺服　神，抵挡魔鬼，魔鬼就逃避你们。

⁷be subject, then, to God; stand up against the devil, and he will flee from you;

⁸你们应当亲近　神，　神就亲近你们。罪人啊，要洁净你们的手；三心两意的人哪，要清洁你们的心。

⁸draw nigh to God, and He will draw nigh to you; cleanse hands, ye sinners! and purify hearts, ye two-souled!

⁹你们要愁苦、悲哀、哭泣，把欢笑变为伤痛，把快乐变为忧愁。

⁹be exceeding afflicted, and mourn, and weep, let your laughter to mourning be turned, and the joy to heaviness;

¹⁰你们务要在主面前谦卑，他就使你们高升。

¹⁰be made low before the Lord, and He shall exalt you.

¹¹不可彼此批评弟兄们，不要互相毁谤；人若毁谤弟兄，或判断弟兄，就是毁谤律法、判断律法了。如果你判断律法，就不是实行律法的人，而是审判官了。

¹¹Speak not one against another, brethren; he who is speaking against a brother, and is judging his brother, doth speak against law, and doth judge law, and if law thou dost judge, thou art not a doer of law but a judge;

¹²立法的，审判的，只有一位，就是那能拯救人，也能毁灭人的　神；你这判断邻舍的，你是谁呢？

¹²one is the lawgiver, who is able to save and to destroy; thou — who art thou that dost judge the other?

¹³不可自夸自恃你们说：“今天或明天，我们要到某城去，在那里住一年，作生意赚钱。”

¹³Go, now, ye who are saying, `To-day and to-morrow we will go on to such a city, and will pass there one year, and traffic, and make gain;`

¹⁴其实明天怎样，你们并不知道。你们的生命是什么呢？你们本来是过眼云烟，转瞬之间就消逝了。

¹⁴who do not know the thing of the morrow; for what is your life? for it is a vapour that is appearing for a little, and then is vanishing;

¹⁵你们倒不如说：“主若愿意，我们就可以活着，作这事或作那事。”

¹⁵instead of your saying, `If the Lord may will, we shall live, and do this or that;`

¹⁶但现在你们竟然张狂自夸；这一切自夸，都是邪恶的。

¹⁶and now ye glory in your pride; all such glorying is evil;

¹⁷人若知道该行善事，却不去行，这就是他的罪了。

¹⁷to him, then, knowing to do good, and not doing, sin it is to him.